Ten top books that explore pioneer life

This is about a missionary family, the Prices, who move from Georgia to the Belgian Congo in 1959. Rachel, Leah, Adah and Ruth May are the four daughters who grow and change over the course of the book. Kingsolver is a superb writer and I think Poisonwood is her finest book, bringing to life a strong female cast of individual voices. It’s the sort of writing I dream of producing.